Read Aloud Lesson Plan and Activities Bundle (Mentor Text Mania Unit 5)

This product is JAM-PACKED with interactive read aloud lesson plans, activities, anchor chart ideas, and writing prompts for 10 of your favorite picture book mentor texts! (See the complete list below) 10 weeks of Comprehensive Literacy Language Workshop lessons. The plans include teacher scripts with strategic stopping points and questions for students and anchor chart ideas. It also includes prompts for student responses through discussion or in writing or thoughtful logs.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Activities cover skills such as:
Using evidence to describe, infer, and draw conclusions
Summarizing
Identifying and supporting author’s message / lesson
Identifying and supporting character traits
Explaining figurative language
Identifying emotions, feelings, and vivid language
Supporting opinions
Comparing characters
Comparing texts to other texts
Defining words using context clues
…and more!

There are also multiple writing prompts for every book that are text-dependent and require using text evidence to explain.

Activities are for the following books:
-Blackout by John Rocco
-I Will Not Read This Book by Cece Meng
-Ish by Peter Reynolds
-Lon Po Po by Ed Young
-Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown
-Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
-Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson
-The Dark by Lemony Snicket
-The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
-The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

If you don’t own all these books, I encourage you to take advantage of your library! They are all wonderful texts to share with your students!

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